Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, C.D.C. Says
Feb 29, 2024 · Alcohol-related deaths surged in the United States by nearly 30 percent in recent years, with roughly 500 Americans dying each day in 2021, according to a new study published by the...
Alcohol Abuse Is on the Rise. Here's Why Doctors Fail to Treat It ...
Jul 12, 2021 · Alcohol is one of the most common forms of substance abuse and a leading cause of preventable deaths and disease, killing almost 100,000 Americans annually and contributing to millions of...
Excessive alcohol drinking drove about 488 deaths per day during …
Feb 29, 2024 · In 2020-21, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, there were an average of about 488 deaths per day from excessive alcohol drinking, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease ...
U.S. Alcohol-Related Deaths Jumped 5-Fold In 20 Years - Forbes
May 11, 2024 · According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, alcohol-related deaths soared, reaching 178,000 in 2020 and 2021. Comprehensive federal datasets have yet to be released...
Women Now Drink As Much As Men — Not So Much For Pleasure, But ... - NPR
Jun 9, 2021 · Women aren't just upping their drinking, researchers say. Increasingly they are "drinking to cope," instead of for pleasure — which accelerates the risk of alcohol use disorder and its health ...
Alcohol deaths spiked among middle-aged adults, especially …
Nov 4, 2022 · Excessive drinking is increasingly killing middle-aged adults — a trend that had been brewing for nearly two decades before it ramped up at an alarming pace when the coronavirus pandemic began....
Binge drinking is a growing public health crisis − a neurobiologist ...
May 13, 2024 · Roughly 1 in 5 U.S. adults report binge drinking at least once a week, with an average of seven drinks per binge episode. This is well over the amount of alcohol thought to produce legal...
As alcohol-related deaths rise in the US, women are increasingly …
Jul 28, 2023 · Alcohol-related deaths among women have surged nearly 15% each year since 2018, on average, a new study found. Men are nearly three times more likely than women to die from alcohol use in the...
Over 3 million annual deaths due to alcohol and drug use, …
Jun 25, 2024 · Over 3 million annual deaths due to alcohol and drug use, majority among men. A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that 2.6 million deaths per year were attributable to alcohol consumption, accounting for 4.7% of all deaths, and 0.6 million deaths to psychoactive drug use.
Complications From Alcohol Use Are Rising Among Women
Apr 12, 2024 · A new study adds to a mounting body of evidence showing that rising alcohol consumption among women is leading to higher rates of death and disease. The report, published Friday in the journal ...